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My client is a Leading, Tier 1 Civil Engineering Contractor.
Due to an internal promotion and planned and continued growth they are looking to appoint, on a permanent basis a Planning Manager to work on a wide variety of Heavy Civil Engineering Projects which could be in any of the following sectors; Energy, Rail, Motorways, Wind Farms, Flood schemes, Ports & Marine, Substations and much more.
Job Role:
- The Planning Manager will support the Head of Planning within the Pre-Construction Planning team
- They will lead the development and production of a tender programmes and supporting information; ensuring it complies with the Contract and Works Information.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the planning on the tender to produce the plan and programme for submission.
- Communicate the plan to everyone involved including external stakeholders.
- Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction.
- Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
- Communicate and gain approval from the bid/project team, the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan utilizing visual aids and graphics developed from concept and detailed drawings.
- Liaise and negotiate with suppliers communicating proposed methods and sequence.
- Assist the bid team to evaluate supply chain quotations/methodologies that relate to programme.
- Manage the resource and cost loading of the programmes in liaison with the Estimating team to produce a commercial forecast if required.
Experience:
- A degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or another relevant subject matter.
- An established Senior Planner or Planning Manager.
- The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years' experience since graduation on large scale civil engineering projects.
Skills:
- Able to digest high level of information and provide expanded detailed analysis using their work experience.
- Excellent communicator.
- Proactive in providing information and contributing to the quality submission for the Bid with relation to Programme and Methodology items.
- Understanding of BIM and its implications and value proposition within the organisation.
- A willingness to incorporate new evolving technologies such as AI into their workflows.
Location
- Must be able to commute to the companies headquarters in Hertfordshire and be prepared to work there for a minimum of 3 days per week. 2 days of hybrid working is permitted.
Benefits:
- Competitive basic salary
- Company car or car allowance
- Company Pension Scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Holidays to include all Bank Holidays
- Training and progression
- Hybrid working
